Howdy Dave,
No I never took latin. The last line that I wrote came from a poem I wrote yrs. ago and that's why it sounds so wierd. You have to read the entire poem to understand it.
Thanks for you time. I wish you the best and May God Bless You!

acceptance is a vital part of moving forward... but i get it, it takes time.

i was in the woe is me, i am a freak stage for numerous years. those were some dark times. (spent many of those years on here, hence the name change!) when i finally accepted E was just a condition and not who i am, my perspective changed. i started to love myself for who i really am. everyone else seemed to follow suit. i don't think i'll ever be in the advocate stage or wear a t-shirt or do one of those running thingamagigs. but, i'm comfortable in my own skin and thats really all that matters in the end. :o

I think I play a bit of hopscotch with the steps, depending on how I am doing with my control and/or side effects at the time! :) 12 years after my official diagnosis...I have accepted it. Realized that it probably impacted my life more than I can ever know and deal with it as I go.

It is not the first thing I tell people about myself. But when it comes up, I am blunt and honest about it. And you either like me for me (nothing has changed about this person you were talking to a minute ago, prior to the disclosure), or you can move on.

It was sometime hard to deal with depression that comes along with epilepsy but I took a look around me and I found other people who had things a lot worse in life than
I ever did with my seizures. I had an Aunt who had MS and couldn't walk and was in a wheelchair having to depend on others. I've dealt with students in school who are
down syndrome, come from broken homes and have severe emotional and some with mental disabilites and all of this woke me up and made me realize how lucky I am.
So what if I blank out for a few seconds and feel a little tired all of that goes away after awhile and I feel fine. This is what has kept me going over the yrs. with epilepsy.
Here's wishing you well and May God Bless You!

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